Kickstart!

Kickstart is an extremely cool website. If you have an awesome idea and you need money to produce it. You can sign up and people will give money to you. If I had $500 on that site I would give my money to a few different projects. I would give $300 to a project that really interests me. That would be the Trackl3t bracelet. This bracelet is a bracelet that you pass on from person to person. It has a website that you go on and record your adventures with the bracelet. Then people who have it in the future can see where it's been. I would give $150 to Remee. Remee is a mask that allows you to have lucid dreams. I would give to Remee because I had a lucid dream once and it was really cool. I wish I could do it again because when I had it I didn't know what it was so I didn't do anything cool. I would pledge $50 to Makey Makey, which looks so super cool, but it already has enough money. Basically, you can turn anything into computer controls. So you could have an alphabet soup keyboard. That would be fun.

Crowrdsourcing through Cleverbot

Crowdsourcing is the act of taking information from a large group of people. Instead of doing it yourself. A prime example of this is Cleverbot! Cleverbot is an online robot. You can log on to Cleverbot and have a conversation with it. Cleverbot saves the information you tell it and uses it in future conversations. To learn more click here. This is an example of crowdsourcing because it uses information you give it to have conversations.

Google 20%

The Google 20% project is a brilliant idea. It is when we just pick a project and go. We can explore our interests and figure out what we like and dislike. Here is an article explaining the 20% project

Wastelands

Wastelands is one of the coolest documentaries I've ever watched. It's about the pickers at Jardim Garmacho, a landfill in Rio de Janeiro. In the beginning of the film it was interesting and while the interest remained the film slowly got sadder and sadder.
   The main focus of the film was a man named Vik Muniz who made portraits of many of the pickers out of garbage to raise money for them. He auctioned off one piece in London for $50,000 US dollars. Vik also gave them a new sense of what they can accomplish and what they can do with their lives.
   Many of the people interviewed said they were proud to work at the landfill. It was easy for them to get sucked up in robbery, drug dealing, prostitution, or some other dishonest job. They felt working in the landfill, even though it was frowned upon by society, was a much more responsible choice. This is good choice. They can work their way out of a landfill but once you start one of those jobs you can’t get out easily.
   I realized after watching this film that I produce a lot of garbage. I might recycle less though. These people make money on taking the recyclables out of the garbage. I’ll give them more business.
   Vik Muniz could do this for almost any area in the world. He could do Iraq or Afghanistan. Or just an American Ghetto

Photo Challenge #5

Theme: Texture
This a close- up of my window. That's all.

Photo Challenge #4

Theme: Looking In

This is the outside of my house looking into the inside. I decided to be incredibly smart and stand outside in the snow wearing a miniskirt to get this picture so you better appreciate it's beauty.

Photo Challenge #3

Theme: Colors

So I thought most of my pictures wern't abstract or creative or beautiful enough so I thought really hard about what the prettiest colorful thing is. My idea was a rainbow but there are rarely any rainbows and it wasn't raining so I had to think of something else. Then when I got home there was a rainbow on my wall from the light going through the decrotive glass on our front door. I was like "Yes!" and I got my camera and took a picture of it. I tried to edit it to make it even cooler but I failed so I just used the origanal picture. The End